Shintaro Kisaragi | |
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Name | |
Kanji | 如月 伸太郎 シンタロー |
Rōmaji | Kisaragi Shintarō Shintarō |
Information | |
Hair color | Black |
Eye color | Brown (Manga, Kisaragi Attention)[note 1]
Black (Anime, Most Music PVs) |
Gender | Male |
Species | Human |
Height | 172 cm (5'8")[1] |
Weight | 58 kg (127 lbs)[1] |
Blood type | A[1] |
Age | 18[2] |
Birthday | April 30[1] |
Occupation | Mekakushi Dan Member No.7 |
Ability | Retaining Eyes |
Status | Current: Alive[3][4] (Manga Route[5], Mekakucity Actors, Movie) Past Routes: Deceased / Inside the Kagerou Daze (Music Route[6], Novel Route[7]) |
Relatives | Unnamed Grandfather[8] † Unnamed Father † Unnamed Mother Momo Kisaragi (Younger Sister) |
Voice Actors | |
Japanese | Takuma Terashima |
First Appearance | |
Music | Jinzou Enemy (Active role) |
Manga | 01. Jinzou Enemy I |
Novel | Kagerou Daze -in a daze- (Jinzou Enemy) |
Anime | Act 01: Jinzou Enemy |
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Shintaro Kisaragi (如月 伸太郎 Kisaragi Shintarō) / Shintaro (シンタロー Shintarō) is the main protagonist of the series. A digital girl named Ene that lives inside his computer causes him to go outside for the first time in two years, where he meets the Mekakushi Dan and becomes its seventh member.
Shintaro became a shut-in NEET[9] after his three only friends all died on the same day. He blames himself primarily for Ayano's suicide due to several incidents and his behavior before her death.[10][11]
Appearance
Shintaro is a young man with short black hair and narrow, black eyes. His character designer, Sidu, has stated that his eyes are drawn with their unique shape because "drawing them normally would make him look like any other light novel protagonist" and she wanted to make him look "uncool". His hair is supposed to be not voluminous and short near the back of his neck.[12] When illustrated by Sidu, his eyelids have epicanthic folds.
In most Routes, including Route 1 of Losstime Memory, he wears a red track jacket that has white stripes on its sleeves over a black v-neck shirt and light brown pants. Shintaro claims that he wears the red jacket because a "female friend" of his said it looked good on him.[13] At home, he normally wears a pair of red slippers with gray socks. Outside, he wears a pair of red sneakers with a black trim. In the Novel Route, he wears his jacket zipped up to the collar on August 14th, including during the terrorist incident at the mall.[14] In the manga and short film, he wears the ends of the sleeves of his jacket up to his elbows. He also wears this jacket during his visit to Takane's Headphone Actor booth in the manga and novels.[15][16][17]
In Route XX and in a scene of the anime, he wears a black pullover hoodie with gray pants and remains barefoot.[2][18]
Back in middle school, he normally wore a common black gakuran uniform with a white shirt underneath.[10][19]
In Summertime Record and Lost Day Hour's manga depiction, Shintaro wears his usual red jacket, a white shirt, black pants and red shoes that have a white trim. In the short film Kagerou Daze -in a day's-, he wears his usual jacket over a white t-shirt that has a large red "7." on its center, dark brown pants, and red shoes that have black soles.
Personality
Shintaro is an intelligent young man whose emotions greatly motivate his actions, or lack thereof. While he can sometimes be seen as apathetic, he is shown to care immensely for other people, especially his family and friends.
At the present day, Shintaro is a shut-in of two years with an IQ of 168[1] and, with the latent use of his eye ability, Retaining Eyes, perfect photographic memory.[20] However, likely due to subconscious memories of past Routes, he found everything predictable with obvious answers and, as a result, grew up with an apathetic viewpoint about himself and the world.[10] He originally did not have much, if any, friends until meeting Ayano in middle school.[21]
In middle school, he was openly selfish and arrogant and showed signs of depression.[10][21][19][15] In both the past and present, he is shown to have a strong attachment to his friends, and the loss of all his friends (i.e. Ayano, Haruka, and Takane) in high school greatly devastated him. Furthermore, an incident the night of Ayano's death had lead him to believe that he is the major contributor to her suicide, causing an immense amount of guilt.[11] These factors are what caused him to him drop out of school and refuse to leave his home for years.
At the present day of Route XX of the Music Route, Shintaro is depressed to the point of being cold and nearly expressionless. Afraid of eventually forgetting about Ayano, he forced himself to think about her constantly and avoided contact with anyone, including Ene and his family. When Ene wakes him from a dream about her, he kills her before stabbing himself in the throat with a pair of scissors. [2]
In other Routes where he is wearing his red jacket, Shintaro has changed drastically from how he was in the past. Jin states that since he is actually very weak, Shintaro could not help but to be overwhelmed by Ene and accept her presence.[22] He is expressive and reacts loudly to his environment, particularly to Ene, and has become addicted to the internet to the point he says he would die without it.[23] He is very fidgety and gets scared easily by horror themes and social situations.[24][25] However, he often shows courage when he needs to, even against imminent dangers, and he can form complex plans with likely good results even when stressed.[25]
Despite his social anxiety, he quickly befriends the Mekakushi Dan in most Routes. He notably shows sympathy towards Hibiya Amamiya when he sees him distressed over losing Hiyori Asahina [26][27] and usually gets along well with Konoha. He also does not hesitate to risk his own life to protect those that he cares about,[2] especially his younger sister, Momo.[28][29]
Eye Ability
- Retaining Eyes (目に焼き付ける Me ni Yakitsukeru): Shintaro's eye ability, given to him by Marry after promising long ago to "never forget this Tragedy", allows him to eidetically remember everything he sees. Unlike others, he does not visit the Kagerou Daze each Route to gain this ability and instead has it since before birth. When his ability is fully activated, he can fully recall events of past Routes [27] and directly speak with the Snake of Retaining Eyes.[18] It is implied that Shintaro is able to subconsciously remember parts of past Routes even before fully activating Retaining Eyes, as he would grow up getting perfect scores on all exams[10] and even games he supposedly had not and could not have played before[19] and found the world to be "predictable". It is revealed in Manga Route 2 that Ayano had once traded her life to become the snake for this ability and chose Shintaro to be her user.[5]
History
- Main page: Shintaro Kisaragi/History
Relationships
- Main page: Shintaro Kisaragi/Relationships
Songs
Main:
Minor:
- Mekakushi Code
- Konoha no Sekai Jijou
- Kisaragi Attention
- Ayano no Koufuku Riron
- Otsukimi Recital
- Yuukei Yesterday
- Outer Science
Trivia
- Shintaro's jacket is based off of one that Jin wore when meeting Sidu for the first time about Kagerou Project.[12]
- Because of this, many find similarities between Jin and Shintaro, including Jin's own sister. He has expressed distress over this, as he finds Shintaro to be a considerably unpleasant character.[31]
- Shintaro currently lives in Kashiwa City, in the Chiba prefecture of Japan.[32][note 2][note 3][note 4] His and Momo's mother is from the Hokkaido region of Japan.[note 5][note 6]
- Shintaro's favorite manga is Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne.[1]
- Haruka Kokonose was the person that introduced soda to Shintaro. [33]
- Shintaro actually wrote a lot of lyrics, but despite his plans to write songs he never finished any song before the one mentioned in the manga, which Ene threatened to delete.[25]
- Shintaro owns a female pet bunny named Tono, as seen in the manga and Losstime Memory.
- Tono translates to "My Lord."
- Shintaro has used the VOCALOID software and probably knows English because he is seen using the VOCALOID Editor in English.[23]
- Shintaro's standard online password is 4510471, a Japanese wordplay that translates to "I don't work" (4-5-10-4-7-1, when read with different forms of Japanese number reading, is pronounced shi-go-to'o-shi-na-i, the same as 仕事をしない).[25]
- Unlike the other media, in the anime, Shintaro lives on his own in an apartment with Ene.[34]
- Shintaro is surprisingly cheap, as he carries around a pouch of 1¥ coins (around 1¢ USA money).[35]
- According to Jin, Shintaro's father wanted to name him "Momotaro", but his mother disagreed strongly, so his name was changed to "Shintaro".[36]
- Shintaro is the second character to appear in the anime.
- Shintaro and Momo also have an unnamed grandfather, referred to in Kagerou Daze VI -over the dimension-:
- (in Shintaro's POV): This was the sound used on TV shows to represent someone's pulse. Some kind of EKG ...? I had heard it who knows how many times before. When my grandfather was admitted to the hospital. When my sister almost drowned in the sea. That, and one other time.
- Shintaro's gamer username is shown to be Red_S_7 in the 2019 gamer merchandise.[37]
Etymology
- The name Shintaro means "iron" (伸) (shin), "thick, big, great" (太) (ta) and "son" (郎) (ro).
- Shintaro's surname Kisaragi means "February" (如月).
Quotes
- "Please, I beg you… ENE! - (Disintegration Book)
- "The warmth of the sunlight was like what I felt the times I dozed at the classroom window seat, and it seemed as if "that familiar voice" was talking to me." - (-in a daze- novel)
References
Notes
- ↑ Shintaro is depicted with brown eyes before the art style changes in Wannyanpoo and Mahiro Satou art styles.
- ↑ Momo's initial profile from the Children Record booklet also confirms she is with "Kashiwa Talent Agency".
- ↑ Jin's commentary for the instrumental track Kaien Panzermast states: "In Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture, there's a panzermast called "Yuuyake, Koyake" that plays at sunset. I really like this theme, so I made it the main theme for this time's zone."
- ↑ In Chapter 57 of the manga, the remaining Mekakushi Dan relocate to a new temporary hideout elsewhere in Chiba, as they escape from the Snake of Clearing Eyes in the 2nd Manga Route.
- ↑ Stated by Momo when speaking with Kenjirou; Kenjirou also refers to Momo's "regional pride".
- ↑ Reconfirmed by Jin during Yuukei Roadshow in Tokyo event.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Children Record Booklet
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Losstime Memory
- ↑ Summertime Record Alive in the end.
- ↑ Lost Day Hour (chapter)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kagerou Daze Vol. 13, 69. Mekakucity Actors
- ↑ Outer Science, see Routes
- ↑ Kagerou Daze VIII -summer time reload-
- ↑ Kagerou Daze VI -over the dimension-, in Daze I of the official English translation, Shintaro hears the sound of an EKG / pulse noise, and refers to remembering hearing it when an unnamed grandfather was admitted to the hospital.
- ↑ HikiNEET (ヒキニート Hikinīto), a portmanteau of hikikomori (引きこもり) and NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Toumei Answer
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Kagerou Daze V -the deceiving-, One Day, on the Street
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 [1]
- ↑ Kagerou Daze II -a headphone actor-, Tsuisou Forest
- ↑ File:Kagerou Daze -in a daze- 02.png
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Kagerou Daze Vol. 03, 14. Headphone Actor II
- ↑ Kagerou Daze VI -over the dimension-, Illustration
- ↑ Kagerou Daze II-a headphone actor-, Yuukei Yesterday III
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Act 11: Otsukimi Recital
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Act 06: Headphone Actor
- ↑ daze / days
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 the old days (Drama CD)
- ↑ Spoon #38 Summary
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 Kagerou Daze Vol. 01, 01. Jinzou Enemy I
- ↑ Kagerou Daze Vol. 02, 09. Headphone Actor I
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 Act 01: Jinzou Enemy
- ↑ Kagerou Daze Vol. 05, 22. Kagerou_Daze V
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 Act 08: Losstime Memory
- ↑ Kagerou Daze Vol. 04, 18. Kagerou Daze I
- ↑ Kagerou Daze Vol. 09, 48. RED
- ↑ https://natalie.mu/music/pp/jin03/page/2
- ↑ Kagerou Daze II -a headphone actor-
- ↑ Konoha no Sekai Jijou television screens, translated by mudskipperkip & raspomme
- ↑ Kagerou Daze VI -over the dimension-
- ↑ Mekakucity Actors Website
- ↑ Kagerou Daze Vol. 05, 20. Kagerou Daze III
- ↑ http://www.kidotsubomi.jp.pn/post/54619047750/his-father-tried-to-name-him-momotarou-but
- ↑ Headphone Actor themed merchandise